Sublime

Any solution that involves valuing human labor risks slowing things down.

the game, the

What the technologists working at the very heart of the world’s biggest tech companies realize, however, is just how disempowering such individuation can be.

(My 93-year-old mother has kept her subscription to the Washington Post strictly because she loves the crossword puzzles. I have shown her websites teeming with crossword puzzles, but she remains unmoved. My mother wants her bundle, and belongs to the last generation to do so.) Information sought a less grandiose, less industrial level of circulati

and against approaches

There lies the most fundamental problem with Mindset-derived solutions: they only move in one direction.

Yet Silicon Valley is crowned the new timekeeper not by a transcendent force, or even by the will of a democratic collective,11 but by its ability to use technology, and its three components, to directly and extensively shape our social lives for what we concede is good. We laud them by saying, “They are so innovative!” which means that they affect